Posts from — February 2006

I came up with a great fix to a problem I was having. What do I do with all the holiday shirts and sweaters that Bacchus Jr. still can get into, but is inappropriate to wear to daycare or out shopping.

The solution:
Since Bacchus Jr. occasionally has accidents at daycare that require us to leave an extra change of clothes in his cubby, that is what I am doing with the out of season clothes. Now the clothes have an extended function and I can get more than two wears out of them. Sometimes I leave for work early and don’t know what he had on in the morning when Mommy Bacchus dropped him off. If I see him in a bright red christmas tree sweater when I pick him up in the evenings, I clearly know that he had an accident or spilled something on them. This is now my clue to get his dirty clothes out of his cubby so they don’t stink up the classroom during the next day.

An added benefit is that I have also taken some of these clothes over to his grandparents house and babysitter so they always have something just in case he spills water paint all over himself…..

GREEN Face: See behavior codes page for further explanation. He has received 5 green faces in a row over the last five days…..Yeah for him!!!!

I got this in an email today and thought it was hilarious

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning … uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda.

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter … with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3’s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio (that is the truth) and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! Man I hated when that happening. It always mixed up my mix tapes.

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like “Space Invaders” and “Asteroids” and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! … Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn’t see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire … imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled!

You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)

Ruminations of an African American Single Father: DNA rewrites history for African-Americans
http://spaces.msn.com/trbunch/blog/cns!780733CB3704F68!397.trak

I found this on another website and includes more details of tracing African Ancestry. It was orginally published in USA Today.

Green Face: See behavior codes page to the right.

We have had 3 green face days in a row…..

Bloomberg.com: Canada

That’s it. It’s clear that no one is taking this meeting seriously. You’re all FIRED!

Originally uploaded by fd.

You ever have meetings like this????

Traffic Jam

Originally uploaded by Ed Bacchus.

I love it when children immitate real life…..

Holiday Loot

Originally uploaded by Ed Bacchus.

Bacchus Jr’s holiday loot. Notice the play-doh on top of the race cars…..